{"product_id":"the-gun-and-the-olive-david-hirst-9781560254836","title":"The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East","description":"More than a decade before Israel's New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, English journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch, a classic, myth-breaking general history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hirst, former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian, traces the origins of the terrible conflict back to the 1880s to show how Arab violence, although often cruel and fanatical, is a response to the challenge of repeated aggression. The Gun and the Olive Branch is an absorbing, potentially controversial, history of the Middle Eastern conflict that is indispensable to anyone with an interest in world politics and by partisans of both sides. This classic and controversial account of the origins of the Middle East conflict returns to print updated with a lengthy introduction that reflects on the course of recent Middle Eastern history -- especially the abortive Israeli-Palestinian peace process and 9\/11.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Hirst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1560254831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781560254836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bold Type Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.51w x 1.67d","brand":"David Hirst","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996334358783,"sku":"9781560254836","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5b30856-5aea-486d-8a3d-1156ecb48a1b.jpg?v=1683341091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gun-and-the-olive-david-hirst-9781560254836","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}